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Jun 27, 2023

The Vegas Golden Knights win the Stanley Cup.  Taylor traded to the Chicago Blackhawks for cap space. The NHL decides to back away from special warm up jersey nights. We do some prep for the Draft which goes this week.  

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Title Player  Ab McDonald - connect to Connor Brown  (expected to go to Oilers)

Ab McDonald - 72-73 Winnipeg Jets -> Coached by Bobby Hull -> Brett Hull 03-04 Red Wings -> Jiri Hudler -> 16-17 Stars Jason Spezza -> 19-20 Leafs Travis Dermont -> 18-19 Leafs Connor Brown

Feedback - shoutout to team at TSN 1260 who got cut in Bell Media layoffs esp Al Mitchell

News

Vegas wins STANLEY CUP

- Marchessault Conn Smythe

  • 6 years as predicted by Bill Foley
  • Overall impressions?

Taylor Hall to Chicago - will have played with 6 No 1 overall picks - Bedard, Dahlin, Hiescher, McDavid, Nuge, Yakupov.

Board of Governors meeting

- no themed warmup jerseys - disappointing - some pretty cool jerseys had been made - Pride, Hockey Fights Cancer, Indiginous etc

- Salary cap up $1MM

- Tampa sell minority stake for $1.4Billion - will this lead to more sales?

- Tannenbaum sells a portion of his 25% stake in MLSE

Trades leading up to Draft

- Sean Durzi to Coyotes for 2024 2nd to LA

- Ryan Johansen from Preds to Avalanche for Galchenyuk - Preds rebuilding

Flames tearing it down?  Big name players 1 year from UFA on the market

Tyler Toffoli  - Seravailli reports doesn’t intend to sign

Elias Lindholm - leaning against signing

Mikael Backlund - leaning against signing

Noah Hanifin - not signing

What a couple of years for franchise - draft will be fascinating

Guess the 5th

NHL Awards

McDavid - Hart, Art Ross, Rocket Richard, Lindsay

64 G, 89 A, 153P - first since Gretzky in 86-87 to lead all categories

Norris - Karlsson

Adams - Montgomery

Selke - Bergeron

Lady Byng -

Draft - Top 10 - McKenzie

Matvei Mitchkov - fascinating discussion  -viewed by many as #2 behind Bedard.

Signed with SKA St. Petersburg 

Teams with Most Picks

Crazy Stat